Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Thank you Andrew for the name of the song and the observation of how appropriate it is for the end of the film. Found links on Youtube and will purchase for my collection. Steven
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I hadn’t been to a proper cinema in years, even in the pre-pandemic “before times”. But the other day I made my way to see the new documentary, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
I love Leonard Cohen as a songwriter. A Canadian born into an Orthodox Jewish family in 1934, he was a novelist and poet before turning to singing and songwriting. His lyrics often pulled on aspects of his faith tradition, while also suggesting a deep and layered understanding of the complexity of life. He sang of love, of faith, of being lost, of searching, of the trials of his people, of sexuality and relationships, and essentially of trying to live through this world in all its tragedy and triumph.
Of all his songs, his most famous is perhaps “Hallelujah”, a track on his seventh album, Various Positions, released in 1984. The album didn’t come out in the US at the time because it was rejected by the then head of Columbia Records. So the song remained obscure, even though Bob Dylan sang it live on occasion, until John Cale recorded a version in 1991. Cale rearranged the song from the 15 verses Cohen shared with him.
The documentary tells of “Hallelujah”’s evolution, highlighting how it moved from obscurity to a sort of informal communal ownership. Countless artists from Jeff Buckley, who immortalised it, to Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile and even opera singer Andrea Bocelli, have recorded a version of the song, shape-shifting its lyrics and verses to suit their own arrangements.
When technology made it possible, I made a special playlist on my phone that’s just 12 different artists singing a version of it. Fifty-six straight minutes of “Hallelujah”s. Seeing the documentary made me wonder again: what is it about this song that has an endless appeal to audiences, and has moved musicians through the decades to keep it alive and thriving for almost 40 years? And why, even now, does it always feel relevant and timely?
Cohen calls the word ‘rich and abundant’, and says people have been ‘singing it for thousands of years to affirm our little journey’
The word itself, Hallelujah, composed of the two Hebrew words, hallel (praise) and yah (an abbreviated form of Yahweh, God), literally means to praise God. But the lyrics and the tone of the song seem to sway between hymn and dirge, two musical forms that could serve as responses to almost everything that happens in our lives: songs that celebrate and acknowledge the blessings and provisions of our lives, and songs that bemoan our losses, our heartbreaks, and our deaths. In the film, Cohen calls the word “rich and abundant”, and says people have been “singing it for thousands of years to affirm our little journey”.
Of all the various arrangements that have been recorded, and the liberties taken, the opening lines remain the same in every version: “(Now), I’ve heard there was a secret chord/That David played, and it pleased the Lord/But you don’t really care for music do you?/It goes like this . . . /The minor fall, the major lift/The baffled king composing ‘Hallelujah’.”
The story Cohen is alluding to is that of the 10th century BC King David, known in the Hebrew scriptures for both his deep faith to his God and his deep personal failings. Of all the many artistic portrayals of King David, “King David Playing the Harp” (1622), by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard van Honthorst, seems to me to depict some visible element of both the ache and the hope I perceive in Cohen’s song.
picture - ‘King David Playing the Harp’ (1622) by Gerard van Honthorst
The image is of a king not necessarily young, but still in his prime. His hands on the harp look strong, as if they’ve known some labour — David was a shepherd and spent a long time in the wilderness on the run from the crazed King Saul before he himself became king. His neck is thick and muscular but there are a few creeping lines on his rosy-cheeked face. The richness of his clothing and his crown show he is secure in his success and is someone of power.
Even without knowing the longer narrative of David’s life written in the Hebrew scriptures, we could still assume that with his age, he is likely to have known both victories and failures, triumphs and grief. David’s life, like most of our own, was filled with light and darkness, an oscillation between our earnest and honest attempts to live with integrity, compassion and generous unselfish love, and our slips or actions that don’t affirm flourishing life and love for ourselves or others.
In the painting, perhaps searching once again for that “secret chord”, David plays what was most likely a lyre, an instrument often associated in ancient times with the gods, as was music itself. David was a gifted musician from his youth, and while he was a shepherd he used the lyre to help calm and appease the troubled King Saul. Now a king himself, David still plays the lyre, symbolic of his natural boyhood gift, his connection and devotion to what he considers holy, and his ability to appease.
The song strikes at the collective human longing for belief in and connection to something or someone beyond ourselves
His gaze is turned upward to the heavens, a look on his face evoking some cross between humility, doubt and hopeful anticipation. His expression is a powerful contrast to his strong stature and to his rich and heavy cloak. Regardless of his power and accomplishments, he is still just a man who can make mistakes, and remains at the mercy of forces beyond him, his God. And yet, despite the dissonance of David’s life, his narrative is still one written and read as composed of an ongoing relationship of love and adoration with the one he knew as God.
Granted, not everyone esteems a relationship to God, to a particular faith, or even to any sense of the spiritual life. And there is no one cadence to the human journey. But the song strikes at the collective human longing for belief in and connection to something or someone beyond ourselves. A relationship (be it with a deity or fellow human) that is unquestionable, trustworthy, reliable and forgiving, despite our missteps.
The opening lines of Cohen’s song are both so haunting and so inviting because they suggest that maybe there is some secret formula out there that can provide a door to that kind of connection, that kind of unconditional acceptance of who we are. It’s also a tender and passionate song about the way in which love, intimacy and connection ebb and flow between people. How we can think we know someone, and believe we ourselves are known, or even that we know ourselves, only for the vagaries of time and life to upend or change that experience. We can surprise even ourselves.
Part of the timelessness of this song is that our lives will always be full of broken hallelujahs, praises interrupted by choice, chance and circumstance. But I also believe that at the end of the day, despite how the journey has been, we too, like Cohen, long and hope to be able to still find enough of the trip worthy of that unending chorus.
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I hadn’t been to a proper cinema in years, even in the pre-pandemic “before times”. But the other day I made my way to see the new documentary, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
I love Leonard Cohen as a songwriter. A Canadian born into an Orthodox Jewish family in 1934, he was a novelist and poet before turning to singing and songwriting. His lyrics often pulled on aspects of his faith tradition, while also suggesting a deep and layered understanding of the complexity of life. He sang of love, of faith, of being lost, of searching, of the trials of his people, of sexuality and relationships, and essentially of trying to live through this world in all its tragedy and triumph.
Of all his songs, his most famous is perhaps “Hallelujah”, a track on his seventh album, Various Positions, released in 1984. The album didn’t come out in the US at the time because it was rejected by the then head of Columbia Records. So the song remained obscure, even though Bob Dylan sang it live on occasion, until John Cale recorded a version in 1991. Cale rearranged the song from the 15 verses Cohen shared with him.
The documentary tells of “Hallelujah”’s evolution, highlighting how it moved from obscurity to a sort of informal communal ownership. Countless artists from Jeff Buckley, who immortalised it, to Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile and even opera singer Andrea Bocelli, have recorded a version of the song, shape-shifting its lyrics and verses to suit their own arrangements.
When technology made it possible, I made a special playlist on my phone that’s just 12 different artists singing a version of it. Fifty-six straight minutes of “Hallelujah”s. Seeing the documentary made me wonder again: what is it about this song that has an endless appeal to audiences, and has moved musicians through the decades to keep it alive and thriving for almost 40 years? And why, even now, does it always feel relevant and timely?
Cohen calls the word ‘rich and abundant’, and says people have been ‘singing it for thousands of years to affirm our little journey’
The word itself, Hallelujah, composed of the two Hebrew words, hallel (praise) and yah (an abbreviated form of Yahweh, God), literally means to praise God. But the lyrics and the tone of the song seem to sway between hymn and dirge, two musical forms that could serve as responses to almost everything that happens in our lives: songs that celebrate and acknowledge the blessings and provisions of our lives, and songs that bemoan our losses, our heartbreaks, and our deaths. In the film, Cohen calls the word “rich and abundant”, and says people have been “singing it for thousands of years to affirm our little journey”.
Of all the various arrangements that have been recorded, and the liberties taken, the opening lines remain the same in every version: “(Now), I’ve heard there was a secret chord/That David played, and it pleased the Lord/But you don’t really care for music do you?/It goes like this . . . /The minor fall, the major lift/The baffled king composing ‘Hallelujah’.”
The story Cohen is alluding to is that of the 10th century BC King David, known in the Hebrew scriptures for both his deep faith to his God and his deep personal failings. Of all the many artistic portrayals of King David, “King David Playing the Harp” (1622), by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard van Honthorst, seems to me to depict some visible element of both the ache and the hope I perceive in Cohen’s song.
picture - ‘King David Playing the Harp’ (1622) by Gerard van Honthorst
The image is of a king not necessarily young, but still in his prime. His hands on the harp look strong, as if they’ve known some labour — David was a shepherd and spent a long time in the wilderness on the run from the crazed King Saul before he himself became king. His neck is thick and muscular but there are a few creeping lines on his rosy-cheeked face. The richness of his clothing and his crown show he is secure in his success and is someone of power.
Even without knowing the longer narrative of David’s life written in the Hebrew scriptures, we could still assume that with his age, he is likely to have known both victories and failures, triumphs and grief. David’s life, like most of our own, was filled with light and darkness, an oscillation between our earnest and honest attempts to live with integrity, compassion and generous unselfish love, and our slips or actions that don’t affirm flourishing life and love for ourselves or others.
In the painting, perhaps searching once again for that “secret chord”, David plays what was most likely a lyre, an instrument often associated in ancient times with the gods, as was music itself. David was a gifted musician from his youth, and while he was a shepherd he used the lyre to help calm and appease the troubled King Saul. Now a king himself, David still plays the lyre, symbolic of his natural boyhood gift, his connection and devotion to what he considers holy, and his ability to appease.
The song strikes at the collective human longing for belief in and connection to something or someone beyond ourselves
His gaze is turned upward to the heavens, a look on his face evoking some cross between humility, doubt and hopeful anticipation. His expression is a powerful contrast to his strong stature and to his rich and heavy cloak. Regardless of his power and accomplishments, he is still just a man who can make mistakes, and remains at the mercy of forces beyond him, his God. And yet, despite the dissonance of David’s life, his narrative is still one written and read as composed of an ongoing relationship of love and adoration with the one he knew as God.
Granted, not everyone esteems a relationship to God, to a particular faith, or even to any sense of the spiritual life. And there is no one cadence to the human journey. But the song strikes at the collective human longing for belief in and connection to something or someone beyond ourselves. A relationship (be it with a deity or fellow human) that is unquestionable, trustworthy, reliable and forgiving, despite our missteps.
The opening lines of Cohen’s song are both so haunting and so inviting because they suggest that maybe there is some secret formula out there that can provide a door to that kind of connection, that kind of unconditional acceptance of who we are. It’s also a tender and passionate song about the way in which love, intimacy and connection ebb and flow between people. How we can think we know someone, and believe we ourselves are known, or even that we know ourselves, only for the vagaries of time and life to upend or change that experience. We can surprise even ourselves.
Part of the timelessness of this song is that our lives will always be full of broken hallelujahs, praises interrupted by choice, chance and circumstance. But I also believe that at the end of the day, despite how the journey has been, we too, like Cohen, long and hope to be able to still find enough of the trip worthy of that unending chorus.
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Here’s Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, put in a whole new light / From Dan Searby, Oyster Bay, NY, US
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Pleased to say that the Electric Cinema in Birmingham UK is showing the movie from 16 to 18 September. I’ve just bought a ticket for the 16 th , hope to see some other fans there !
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Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Ha! What a difference a year makes - last year's predictions belowMarieM wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:01 am Recently Variety revealed their Oscar Predictions. Drum roll, please... In the Best Documentary Feature, Variety predicts Hallelujah will not only be nominated but will be the likely Oscar winner for 2023.
(https://variety.com/.../2023-oscars-predictions-ranked.../)
https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewt ... 11#p377663
Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Post by B4real » Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:10 am
This film is not considered a front runner but is still in the running and really all that is needed is to be in the race
Oscars Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
https://variety.com/feature/2022-oscars ... 235072004/
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Oscars Predictions: Best Original Score
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I was fortunate enough to see this film at the Everyman cinema in my hometown of Altrincham last Thursday evening.
In short, it's a hugely enjoyable documentary which certainly exceeded my somewhat world-weary expectations.
Some marvellous unseen footage and enlightening interviews with the likes of Larry 'Ratso' Sloman, the ever-reliable and entertaining John Lissauer, Dominique Isserman and Sharon Robinson.
Some very moving moments, too. None more so, for me, than when you witness LC say the words "so beautiful" to the Webb Sisters and Sharon Robinson during an extended conclusion to a live performance of Tower Of Song.
Highly recommended.
In short, it's a hugely enjoyable documentary which certainly exceeded my somewhat world-weary expectations.
Some marvellous unseen footage and enlightening interviews with the likes of Larry 'Ratso' Sloman, the ever-reliable and entertaining John Lissauer, Dominique Isserman and Sharon Robinson.
Some very moving moments, too. None more so, for me, than when you witness LC say the words "so beautiful" to the Webb Sisters and Sharon Robinson during an extended conclusion to a live performance of Tower Of Song.
Highly recommended.
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Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
We saw this in a national pre-release preview, on Friday night at the Picturehouse cinema (London central). There were a number of references and comments which will not be new to many on this forum but, nevertheless, a very enjoyable film, with interviews and insights that were new to me. There were also a further 22 songs of Leonard's featured, in some capacity, so not only "Hallelujah" although this is obviously the recurring theme throughout with many covers and versions included. We were also lucky enough to be in the audience after the screening, for a Q&A with the directors Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine also joined by Robert Kory, Leonard Cohen’s former long-time manager and current head of the Cohen Family Trust. An interesting and enjoyable discussion which, not only covered the film and the "journey" of the directors in getting it made but went wider in general discussions, mainly fielded by Robert Corey. I would recommend, anyone, tries to take the opportunity to view this in a cinema where it can be best appreciated.
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What we learned about Leonard Cohen from making a documentary of his life
In their new film, directors Dayna Goldfine and Daniel Geller examine Pop's Poet Laureate through the lens of his greatest song
https://www.nme.com/features/film-inter ... rs-3310112
In their new film, directors Dayna Goldfine and Daniel Geller examine Pop's Poet Laureate through the lens of his greatest song
https://www.nme.com/features/film-inter ... rs-3310112
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Where can we see It in Spain?
Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Here is the latest list of showing locations in the UK for the documentary:
PICTUREHOUSE
ASHFORD PICTUREHOUSE
BATH LITTLE THEATRE
BRIGHTON DUKE YORK
BRIXTON RITZY
BROMLEY PICTUREHOUSE
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEYGATE CINEMA
CAMBRIDGE PICTUREHOUSE
CHISWICK CINEMA
CROUCH END PICTUREHOUSE
EAST FINCHLEY PHOENIX
FINSBURY PARK PICTUREHOUSE
FULHAM ROAD PICTUREHOUSE
GREENWICH PICTUREHOUSE
HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE
HENLEY REGAL PICTUREHOUSE
LIVERPOOL FACT
LONDON CENTRAL PICTUREHOUSE
NORWICH CINEMA CITY
NOTTING HILL GATE
OXFORD PHOENIX
SOUTHAMPTON HARBOUR LIGHTS
STRATFORD EAST PICTUREHOUSE
WELWYN G.CITY CAMPUS WEST
WEST NORWOOD PICTUREHOUSE
INDIES
ACTON ACT ONE CINEMA
BARBICAN CENTRE
BARNES OLYMPIC STUDIOS
BARTON RED CARPET CINEMA & CAFE BAR
BIRMINGHAM ELECTRIC
BLOOMSBURY BERTHA DOCHOUSE
BRISTOL WATERSHED
DALSTON RIO
DERBY QUAD
DUNDEE ARTS
EDINBURGH FILM HSE
FINCHLEY ROAD JW3
HAMMERSMITH RIVERSIDE
HEBDEN BRIDGE PICTURE HOUSE
KESWICK ALHAMBRA
NEWCASTLE TYNESIDE CINEMA
NOTTINGHAM BROADWAY
SHEFFIELD SHOWROOM
UCKFIELD PICT.HSE.
IRELAND
BELFAST OMNIPLEX KENNEDY CENTRE
CASTLEBAR MAYO
CORK OMNIPLEX
LIMERICK OMNIPLEX
RATHMINES SWAN CINEMA
SALTHILL OMNIPLEX
SHOWCASE - Screening on 21st of Sept
BLUEWATER S/CASE
BRISTOL SHOWCASE (DE LUX)
COVENTRY S/CASE
DERBY SHOWCASE (DE LUX)
DUDLEY S/CASE
LEEDS S/CASE
LEICESTER SHOWCASE (DE LUX)
NOTTINGHAM S/CASE
PETERBOROUGH S/CASE
READING S/CASE
CURRENT OFF DATE BOOKINGS
ABERDEEN BELMONT
BERKHAMSTEAD REX
CHICHESTER CINEMA AT NEWPARK
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
LANCASTER DUKES PLAYHOUSE
NEWBURY CORN EXCHANGE
NEWLYN FILMHOUSE
PINEWOOD STUDIOS
POOLE LIGHTHOUSE
PORTSMOUTH NO. 6
SAFFRON WAL. SCREEN
ST. ALBANS ODYSSEY
PICTUREHOUSE
ASHFORD PICTUREHOUSE
BATH LITTLE THEATRE
BRIGHTON DUKE YORK
BRIXTON RITZY
BROMLEY PICTUREHOUSE
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEYGATE CINEMA
CAMBRIDGE PICTUREHOUSE
CHISWICK CINEMA
CROUCH END PICTUREHOUSE
EAST FINCHLEY PHOENIX
FINSBURY PARK PICTUREHOUSE
FULHAM ROAD PICTUREHOUSE
GREENWICH PICTUREHOUSE
HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE
HENLEY REGAL PICTUREHOUSE
LIVERPOOL FACT
LONDON CENTRAL PICTUREHOUSE
NORWICH CINEMA CITY
NOTTING HILL GATE
OXFORD PHOENIX
SOUTHAMPTON HARBOUR LIGHTS
STRATFORD EAST PICTUREHOUSE
WELWYN G.CITY CAMPUS WEST
WEST NORWOOD PICTUREHOUSE
INDIES
ACTON ACT ONE CINEMA
BARBICAN CENTRE
BARNES OLYMPIC STUDIOS
BARTON RED CARPET CINEMA & CAFE BAR
BIRMINGHAM ELECTRIC
BLOOMSBURY BERTHA DOCHOUSE
BRISTOL WATERSHED
DALSTON RIO
DERBY QUAD
DUNDEE ARTS
EDINBURGH FILM HSE
FINCHLEY ROAD JW3
HAMMERSMITH RIVERSIDE
HEBDEN BRIDGE PICTURE HOUSE
KESWICK ALHAMBRA
NEWCASTLE TYNESIDE CINEMA
NOTTINGHAM BROADWAY
SHEFFIELD SHOWROOM
UCKFIELD PICT.HSE.
IRELAND
BELFAST OMNIPLEX KENNEDY CENTRE
CASTLEBAR MAYO
CORK OMNIPLEX
LIMERICK OMNIPLEX
RATHMINES SWAN CINEMA
SALTHILL OMNIPLEX
SHOWCASE - Screening on 21st of Sept
BLUEWATER S/CASE
BRISTOL SHOWCASE (DE LUX)
COVENTRY S/CASE
DERBY SHOWCASE (DE LUX)
DUDLEY S/CASE
LEEDS S/CASE
LEICESTER SHOWCASE (DE LUX)
NOTTINGHAM S/CASE
PETERBOROUGH S/CASE
READING S/CASE
CURRENT OFF DATE BOOKINGS
ABERDEEN BELMONT
BERKHAMSTEAD REX
CHICHESTER CINEMA AT NEWPARK
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
LANCASTER DUKES PLAYHOUSE
NEWBURY CORN EXCHANGE
NEWLYN FILMHOUSE
PINEWOOD STUDIOS
POOLE LIGHTHOUSE
PORTSMOUTH NO. 6
SAFFRON WAL. SCREEN
ST. ALBANS ODYSSEY
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Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
It's showing a few times a day this week in The Savoy in Dublin. I saw it today. Was apprehensive because I'm not a fan of most covers of this song . However I really enjoyed it, and was very emotional at times. Oh what I would give to be able to read all the 80 verses, and all the notebook snippets.
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Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
review by brian viner.
scroll down at link to read.
"...The life story of another creative genius is documented by focusing on his most famous composition in Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
Cohen died, as coincidentally Bowie did, in 2016. And actually there are other parallels; both men wrote at least as well as they sang, and both had incredibly fertile, restless minds. This excellent film by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine is much more conventional than Moonage Daydream but, for Cohen fans, it is similarly full of treasures.
I greatly enjoyed the analysis of Hallelujah's lyrics as: 'one part biblical, one part the woman he slept with last night'...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... dream.html
scroll down at link to read.
"...The life story of another creative genius is documented by focusing on his most famous composition in Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
Cohen died, as coincidentally Bowie did, in 2016. And actually there are other parallels; both men wrote at least as well as they sang, and both had incredibly fertile, restless minds. This excellent film by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine is much more conventional than Moonage Daydream but, for Cohen fans, it is similarly full of treasures.
I greatly enjoyed the analysis of Hallelujah's lyrics as: 'one part biblical, one part the woman he slept with last night'...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... dream.html
Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
ThanksfortheTrouble wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 7:06 am Blu ray news:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will bring to Blu-ray Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine's Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 11...
Does anybody have any info regarding the release of this film on Blu-ray (or DVD) in Canada? I cannot find it listed (for pre-order, of course) on any Canadian retailer sites (amazon.ca, etc.), but it is listed on USA and European amazon sites, amongst many other non-Canadian retailers. Odd.
Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song can be purchased beginning next Tuesday, October 11.
Available on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD- Pre-Order Now: https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/hallelujah
Available on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD- Pre-Order Now: https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/hallelujah
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Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Saw (bought) the movie tonight on Prime Video. Beautiful!
18-04-1988 | Concert, Muziektheater (Stopera), Amsterdam
12-07-2008 | Concert, Westerpark, Amsterdam
03-11-2008 | Concert, Ahoy, Rotterdam
21-08-2012 | Concert, Olypisch Stadion, Amsterdam
18-09-2013 | Concert, Ahoy, Rotterdam
05-08-2022 | LC-event, MIRY Concertzaal, Gent
12-07-2008 | Concert, Westerpark, Amsterdam
03-11-2008 | Concert, Ahoy, Rotterdam
21-08-2012 | Concert, Olypisch Stadion, Amsterdam
18-09-2013 | Concert, Ahoy, Rotterdam
05-08-2022 | LC-event, MIRY Concertzaal, Gent
Re: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
HALLELUJAH: Les Mots de Leonard Cohen
The Hallelujah documentary is opening in France today. The film is being distributed by the Paris-based distributors, The Jokers. You can check out the listing of show times and places here: https://bit.ly/Hallelujah_seances
The Hallelujah documentary is opening in France today. The film is being distributed by the Paris-based distributors, The Jokers. You can check out the listing of show times and places here: https://bit.ly/Hallelujah_seances
Marie
Speaking Cohen
Speaking Cohen